cigarettes prescribed for asthma From resuscitating drowning victims to 'curing' asthma

🕰️ 1890: The cure was... smoking? It sounds impossible today, but over a century ago, "Asthma Cigarettes" were sold in pharmacies. Patients were told to inhale smoke to clear their lungs. The science

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🩺🚬 When Doctors Prescribed Cigarettes… for Asthma! Back in the early 1900s, ads like this promised relief from “sudden, violent asthma attacks” with Dr. Blosser's Medical Cigarettes — a tobacco-free blend said

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Asthma Management – Virtual Museum

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Didyouknow Long before modern inhalers, people treated asthma attacks by smoking! The Dr. R. Schiffmann's Asthmador — sold as combustible powder or cigarettes — was packed with belladonna and stramonium, both nightshade

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Stramonium Cigarettes: Smoking to Relieve Asthma

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Back in the day they used to have cigarettes to help asthma sufferers. : r/Damnthatsinteresting

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🩺🚬 When Doctors Prescribed Cigarettes… for Asthma! Back in the early 1900s, ads like this promised relief from “sudden, violent asthma attacks” with Dr. Blosser's Medical Cigarettes — a tobacco-free blend said

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